MEAN OCCUPATION NUMBER OF PHOTONS AS A FUNCTION OF MEAN FREE-PATH

Authors
DAOUD AS
Citation
As. Daoud, MEAN OCCUPATION NUMBER OF PHOTONS AS A FUNCTION OF MEAN FREE-PATH, Physics essays, 11(2), 1998, pp. 216-221
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics essays → ACNP
ISSN journal
08361398
Volume
11
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
216 - 221
Database
ISI
SICI code
0836-1398(1998)11:2<216:MONOPA>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
In this work a relationship is found between the mean occupation numbe r of photons and the mean free path. This relation guarantees the poss ibility of experimentally measuring the mean occupation number of phot ons occupying a mode of the radiation field by measuring the mean free path.